Robert Frank, photo poetry
When people look at my pictures, I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem...
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RIP Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first word processor
We take the word processor for granted but fifty years ago it didn’t even exist. That is, until Evelyn Berezin came along and produced the...
The rebel. RIP John McCain, ‘McNasty’
Whipsawed by family relocations, young John attended some 20 schools before finally settling into Episcopal High School, an all-white, all-boys boarding school in Alexandria, Va.,...
RIP Anthony Bourdain: ‘I love having my teeth kicked in by a different perspective’
Stay hungry. Stay curious. And above all, stay interesting. Queens of the Stone Age lead singer Josh Homme, who wrote a song for Bourdain’s Parts...
Philip Roth (RIP): ‘Writing turns you into someone who’s always wrong’
“Writing turns you into someone who’s always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right is the perversity that draws you on.” Philip Roth...
Tom Wolfe: ‘I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph’
“I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.” Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test...
RIP Stephen Hawking: ‘Quiet people have the loudest minds’
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Stephen Hawking was a visionary physicist who explored the universe and...